Printer&#39;s furniture.



E. P. W. KAISER.

PRINTERS FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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PRINTER'S FURNITURE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

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EDWARD F. W. KAISER, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

I -RINTERS FURNITURE.

Application filed September 19, 1914:.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD W. KAISER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in printers furniture, the principal object of my present invention being to provide furniture of the kind stated in sets of cobperating toothed or notched members adapted to readily adjustably and firmly detachably co-engage in various relative arrangements or formations to fill out printing-forms or chases and printing-press beds to hold securely in printing position a printing form in a chase or a chase in a printing-press bed.

With the above and other objects in .view, my present invention resides in certain novel features of form, arrangement, construction, and combination of parts, all as will hereinafter be described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a printing-chase, illustrating, also in plan View, a printing-form held operatively therein by a plurality ofsets of coen a in furniture members embod inn" my invention; Fig. 2 is a plan view of a printing-press bed, illustrating, also in plan view, a plurality of printing-chases held operatively therein by a cooperative adj usted locking arrangement of a plurality of sets of co-engaging furniture members embodying my invention; Fig. 3 is a plan View of a piece or section of material, showing diagrammatically one of the furniture members in course of manufacture; and Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged plan views of coiiperating or co-engaging furniture-members forming part of my invention.

Referring to the said drawings, each set of my new printers furniture comprises preferably four members, namely, two main approximately similar triangular members 1 and 1 and two approximately similar elongated members or connecting strips 2 and 2, all said members being preferably of any suitable metallic material and of suitable thickness relatively to the type or chases with which they are to be specifically employed.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 9, ltlild.

Serial No. 862,530.

Members l-l, which may be of any suitable size and may, as will be understood, be made or manufactured in various sizes, are each approximately a oneaquartersection of a square intersected diagonally, as illustrated in Fig. 3, and are each preferably what might be called an isosceles right triangle turned on its hypotenuse or, as it might be said, having its hypotenuse as its base, the opposite sides or legs of each of said members being preferably of equal length and having consequently an incline of d5 to the base or, as it might be described, to the horizontal. On each of its opposite legs or sides, each member 1-1 is notched or cut-away to provide oblique converging series of regular outwardly and upwardly presented (reference being had particularly to Fig. 4) angular teeth, each series of teeth being formed on a pitch-line p-p, if it may be so called, as illustrated in Figs. 3 and a, and having an incline, of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being preferably equal approximately to Members 22, which may be of any suit able length and width and which may also, as will be understood, be of various lengths, are, in effect, lengthwise sections of a similar right triangle, each of said members 2-2" being provided at its opposite ends with oblique converging series of regular outwardly and upwardly presented (reference being had particularly to Fig. 5) angular teeth M adapted to readily detachably lit in and engage with teeth of said series of teethr3-3 ofsaid members 11, said se- I ries of teeth l4l' being similarly formed on a so-called pitch-line pp. (as illustrated in Fig. 5), and having an incline, of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being likewise preferably equal approximately to 60.

In use or operation, presuming a typeform F is to be locked in printing position in a chase C, a member l'is arranged with its baseflatwiseagainst the inner face of a side of the chase. and a second member 1 is similarly arranged with its base flatwise against one of the sides. or strips of the typeform F, as shown. Members 2*? are then adjustably fitted lengthwise between said members 1l with their. said teeth engaging with teeth of said series of teeth 3-3 of said members 1 1, also as shown,

chase, as illustrated in Fig. 1, to correspondingly fill the space therebetween, when, as will be seen, quoins Q or other lockingdevices being preferably suitably interposed,

as between members 1 and the sides of the chase, to tighten or lock-up the type-form, the type-form willbe securely held in proper justified printing position in the chase. To afterward remove the type-form F from the chase, quoins Q, maybe first unlocked or loosened, when members or strips 2-2 may be readily detachably disengaged from members 1-1 to free the type-form. By providing the furniture members 1-1 and 2-2 with co-engaging series of teeth as described, each series of teeth having an incline of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth being approxi mately equal to 60, not only am I enabled to readily and quickly operatively co-engage the several members in spacefilling position and afterward disengage or adjust the same when required, but also the several members, when operatively co-engaged, firmly and-positively grip one another in looking arrangement or relation, slipping or accidental disengagement of the several members, as will be evident, being practically entirely prevented. Furthermore, it will be seen that, by the use of my new furniture,

. each set thereof comprising preferably as described but four cooperating or co-engaging members, the space between the typeform and the sides of the chase may be quickly and conveniently operatively filled, the several members of the furniture being of suitable relative sizes. Preferably, so that the several furniture-members may tightly grip one another when brought into cooperative adjusted engagement, each tooth of said members is cut-away at its base, as at 5, to permit the easy escape, as said members are being operatively co-engaged, of any dust particles or the like which may have lodged on the faces of said teeth.

To provide for cooperative adjusted engaging formations or arrangements between sets of my new furniture, as, for instance,

in'securely holding a plurality of chases,

such, as chases C and .C, in a printingpress bed P, as illustrated in Fig. 2, each member 1-1 is at its base cut-away, as at 6-6, and provided with oblique diverging 'or inverted series of regular outwardly and downwardly presented (reference being had particularly to Fig. 4) angular teeth 7-7 preferably similarly formed on a pitch-line pand having an incline, of approximately 15 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being preferable equal approximately to 60". Also members 2-2 are each on one or their outer long side cut away, as at 8-8, and provided with oblique diverging series of re ular outwardly and downwardly presented (reference being had particularly to Fig. 5) angular teeth 9-9, each series of teeth being preferably similarly formed on a pitch-line p-p, and having an incline, of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each of said teeth being preferably likewise equal approximately to 60. Some or all of the members 1-1 of the several sets of furniture being so provided with series of teeth 3-3 and 7-7 and some or all of the members 2-2 of the several sets of furniture being so provided with series of teeth 1-41 and 9-9, it will be evident and clearly obvious from an inspection of Fig. 2, without a detail description here of the furniture arrangement or formation there illustrated, that said members 2-2 of one set of furniture may, when in chase or type-form securing relation, not only operatively adj ustably engage at their end teeth 4- with teeth of the series of teeth 3-3 of members 1-1 in the manner shown in Fig. 1 in the comparatively simple chase or type-form securing arrangement there illus trated, but may also, depending upon the particular chase or type-form securing arrangement or formation required or desired,

operatively engage with teeth 9-9 of another member 2 or 2 of a second set of furniture, or with the teeth 7-7 of a member 1 or 1 of a second set of furniture, or that members 1-1 of two sets of furniture may be operatively positioned base to base, members 2-2 of several sets of furniture engaging at their end teeth 4-4 with the teeth 3-3 thereof, as shown, or that a member 1 or 1 of one set of furniture may be locked between the members 2-2 of two sets of furniture, the members 2-2 of one set of furniture engaging at their teeth 4-4 with the teeth 3-3 of said member and the strips 2-2 of the other set of furniture engaging at their teeth 1-4 with the teeth 7-7 of said member, also as shown, as many sets or pieces of furniture being em ployed as may be required or necessary to fill out the bed P to securely hold the chase or chases operatively in printing position therein and quoins Q, or other analogous lock-up devices being preferably used wherever required, as shown, to tighten or look up and justify the work. Thus, the

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mes es printer having at hand a plurality of members 11 and also a plurality of members 2-2 of various lengths, it will be obvious that the several sets or pieces of furniture may readily be combined together in many engaging relations or arrangements to fill out the chase or press-bed to operatively securely hold the type-form or chase or chases in printing position.

I am aware that minor changes in the form, construction, and combination of the several members of my new furniture may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described without departing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what i claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member, said member being provided on its leg-sides with series of angular teeth having each an angle less than. a right angle, and a plurality of elongated strips adapted to adjustably cooperate with said member, said strips at their end being provided with angular teeth having each also an angle less than a right angle and adapted to detachably fit in and interlockingly engage with teeth of said member; substantially as described. l

2. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided on its leg-sides with series of angular teeth having each an angle equal approximately to 60, and a plurality of elongated strips adapted to adjustably cooperate with said member, each of said strips being provided at an end thereof with angular teeth having each also an angle equal approximately to 60 and adapted to detachably fit in and interlockingly engage with teeth of said member; substantially as described.

3. Printers furniture comprising a plurality of triangular members provided on their leg-sides with series of angular teeth, the angle of each of said teeth being equal approximately to 60", and a plurality of elongated strips adapted to adjustably cooperate with said members, each of said strips being provided at its opposite ends with corresponding angular teeth having each an angle equal approximately to 60 adapted to detachably fit in and interloclc ingly engage with teeth of said members; substantially as described.

4:. Printers furniture comprising a plurality of triangular members provided on their leg-sides with oblique series of angular teeth having an incline of approximately 45 to the base thereof, the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60. and a plurality of elongated strips adapted to adjustably cooperate with said members, each of said strips being provided at its opposite end. with oblique series of corresponding angular teeth havin an incline of approximately 4L5 to the horizontal, the angle of each of said latter teeth being also equal approximately to 60 and the teeth of said strips being adapted to detachably fit in and interlockingly engage with teeth of said members; substantially as described.

5. Printers furniture comprising a plurality of triangular members, each of said members being provided on its opposite leg-sides with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on its base with oblique divergingseries of angular teeth, each series of teeth having an incline of approximately -'l.5 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being equal. approximately to 60, and a plurality of elongated strips adapted to adj ustably cooperate with said members, each of said strips being pro vided at opposite ends with oblique converging series. of angular teeth and on one long side with oblique diverging series of angular teeth, each of said latter series of teeth having also an incline of approximately 45 to the. horizontal and the angle of each of the teeth thereof being also equal approximately to 60, the end teeth of one of said strips being adapted to detachably fit in and engage with teeth of said members and also with side teeth of another of said strips; substantially as described.

6. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided on its opposite leg-sides with oblique series of angular teeth, the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60; substantially as described.

7 Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided with a plurality of pairs of series of angular teeth adapted for engagement with the teeth of another piece of furniture.

8. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided with a plurality of oppositely-disposed pairs of angular teeth adapted for engagement with the teeth of another piece of furniture. p

9. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided on its opposite leg-sides with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on its base with oblique diverging series of angular teeth; substantially as described.

10. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided on its opposite leg-sides with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on its base with oblique diverging series of angular teeth, the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60; substantially as described.

11. Printers furniture comprising a triangular member provided on its opposite his leg-sides with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on its base with oblique diverging series of angular teeth, each series of teeth having an incline of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60; substantially as de scribed. a

12. Printers" furniture comprising an elongated strip provided at its opposite ends with oblique series of angular teeth, the angle of each of said teeth being equal approximately to 60; substantially as described. -13. Printers furniture Comprising an elongated strip provided with a plurality of pairs of series of angular teeth adapted for locking engagement with the teeth of another piece of furniture.

14. Printers furniture comprising an elongated strip provided with a plurality of oppositely-disposed pairs of angular teeth adapted for locking engagement withthe teeth of another piece of furniture.

-15. Printers furniture comprising an elongated strip provided at its opposite ends with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on along side with oblique diverging series of angular teeth; substantially as described.

16. Printers furniture comprising an elongated strip provided at its opposite ends with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on a long side with oblique diverging series of angular teeth, the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60; substantially as described.

1?. Printers furniture comprising an elongated strip provided at its opposite ends with oblique converging series of angular teeth and on a long side with oblique diverging series of angular teeth, each of said series of teeth having an incline of approximately 45 to the horizontal and the angle of each tooth of said series being equal approximately to 60; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDlVARD F. W. KAISER.

Witnesses:

RUTH PETERSON, AnoLrH R. GRUND.

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